Database Characteristics
Database page size: KiBDisk Characteristics
Disk seek time: msSize of Sort Problem
Size of input file to be sorted: GiB (this makes for N = pages of input)Resulting External Sort Behavior
Pass 0 will produce runs, each of size pages but the last run (which only has pages).Resulting I/O and Disk Seek Effort
The sort process will initiate I/O operations (reads and writes) and disk head seeks.Resulting Overall Time for Sort Process
Disk seeking will need minutes, while minutes is spent on I/O itself.Made with Tangle.js.